SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
One day when my watch was at work on deck the captain 
came along and said I was not sewing the sail right; and I 
said I thought I was; when he kicked me over the eye with a 
large heavy shoe he had on at the time. And when the pain 
made me start to my feet, with the blood running down my 
face, he said that I wanted to kill him with a knife, and im¬ 
mediately had me put (hands and feet) in irons. I remained 
so for half an hour; when the captain, ordering me to be tied 
up to the main-rigging,and taking his knife from his pocket, 
cut the shirt off my back, and gave me two dozen lashes with 
his own hand. After this I was taken down and thrown in 
the longboat among the hogs, and fed on bread and water for 
a fortnight. In this situation I suffered very much. For I 
was ironed hand and foot, the weather was extremely cold, 
and I w T as without shirt, shoes and stockings. At the end of 
the two weeks the ship arrived in port, and I was taken out 
of the longboat. My feet, too, were stripped of their fetters ; 
they were swelled so much that it was with difficulty I could 
walk. I was kept manacled at the wrists till the ship had 
got underway out of the harbor. After she had passed the 
fort the captain ordered a boat lowered and sent me ashore on 
a barren place, where it was impossible for me to go to the 
settlement without a boat, and left me with the irons on my 
hands. In this situation I spent two days and nights on the 
beach without food or water, when I was picked up by a man 
who gave me a passage in a canoe to the settlement. Here I 
had to work hard for my victuals. After nine months the 
schooner Clementine, of New York, arrived, and I asked 
Captain --to take me out of the country, but he refused. 
I then went to Ohotsk, thinking to go overland to St. Peters¬ 
burg ; finding a vessel there from the States, however, I 
wanted to ship in her, but was detained by the Russian 
government, and forced to work for the Russian American 
Fur Company the two following years. After having been 
forced to bear the rigors of two Siberian winters, without 
much clothing, and to serve as a slave for two and a half years, 
